Word: worshiper
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Maybe the editors of "The Hillary Clinton Quarterly" haven't completely bought into their own hero worship. Perhaps it's precisely the I-told-you-so thrill that earned Hillary her own magazine. And if the editors aren't gleefully awaiting the First Lady's eventual fall from grace, maybe they should be. A tainted Hillary would be a boon for subscriptions--just ask the former editors of the "Quayle Quarterly...
...simply breathe. For silence is responsiveness, and in silence we can listen to something behind the clamor of the world. "A man who loves God, necessarily loves silence," wrote Thomas Merton, who was, as a Trappist, a connoisseur, a caretaker of silences. It is no coincidence that places of worship are places of silence: if idleness is the devil's playground, silence may be the angels'. It is no surprise that silence is an anagram of license. And it is only right that Quakers all but worship silence, for it is the place where everyone finds his God, however...
Granted, it is ridiculous to expect that every group in society be represented on a Cabinet which has only a limited number of spots. (Along with Asian-Americans, people born in North Dakota, people who worship the sun and people with the last names starting with Z also went unrepresented...
...destruction equally enraged Muslims -- roughly 12% of India's population of 870 million -- and ignited the gravest crisis in India since the religious massacres that followed independence in 1947. Muslim and Hindu mobs armed with knives, hatchets and fire bombs attacked each other's houses of worship, homes and people in Bombay, Calcutta and other cities. A semiofficial death count topped 1,000, though the true toll was believed to be much higher. Muslim mobs burned Hindu temples and homes in the neighboring, predominantly Islamic countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh; more than 30 people were killed in Pakistan. Even...
Bresman, who is a Crimson editor, said that Jerusalem's historical and religious significance for the people of Israel also make it a more fitting location for the embassy. The city is an open one, he said, and people of all religions can now worship freely there...